What are the Most Common Types of Hearing Loss?
Although there are many TYPES of hearing loss, the most common type is SENSORINEURAL (also called “cochlear” or “inner ear” or “nerve loss”), the second most common type of hearing loss is CONDUCTIVE. Other types of hearing loss include; mixed and central. When the problem is in the inner ear, a sensorineural hearing loss occurs. Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common type of hearing loss. More than 90 percent of all hearing aid wearers have sensorineural hearing loss. The most common causes of sensorineural hearing loss are; age related changes, noise exposure, inner ear blood circulation, inner ear fluid disturbances and problems with the hearing nerve. Conductive hearing loss occurs when sound is not conducted efficiently through the ear canal, eardrum or the tiny bones of the middle ear, resulting in a reduction of loudness of sound. Conductive loss may result from earwax blocking the ear canal, fluid in the middle ear, middle ear infection, obstructions in the ear canal, pe